African Americans in Colonial America
Triangle Trade
African Empires
Enslavement
Miscellaneous
100
This is the group of colonies that was in the MIDDLE of the British Colonies in America.
What is the Middle Colonies?
100
This was the reason that trade in the 1600s and 1700s was called Triangle Trade.
What is there were three sides (or legs)?
100
This was the name of ONE of the African Empires we studied.
What was Ghana OR Mali OR Songhay?
100
This form of enslavement is different from slavery in that the person that was enslaved was freed after a period of time, usually seven years.
What is indentured servant?
100
This is the man running for President against Barack Obama.
Who is Mitt Romney?
200
This is the name of the group of colonies that were the farthest south in colonial America?
What is the Southern Colonies?
200
These were the 3 points of Triangle Trade.
What are Europe, Africa, and North America?
200
This was the name of the river that flows through Northwest Africa.
What is the Niger River?
200
This is the way most slaves in West Africa were brought into servitude.
What is being a war captive?
200
This is the age you have to be to vote in the United States of America.
What is 18?
300
These colonies were the farthest north in colonial America.
What is the New England Colonies?
300
These were the TWO MAIN items brought from African to North America in Triangle Trade.
What were Africans and slaves?
300
The taming of this animal helped African Empires become wealthy by aiding their trade industry across the desert.
What is the camel?
300
This is ONE difference between slavery in Africa and slavery in the United States.
What is black people owned black people OR slaves were able to become family members OR slaves were sold far away so they could not get back to their families?
300
This city is the capital of Pennsylvania.
What is Harrisburg?
400
This is the main reason that the southern colonies needed more slaves.
What is the southern states needed more manpower to tend their fields?
400
This was the name of the leg of Triangle Trade that went from Africa to North America.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
These were the two main resources of the African Empires that we have studied.
What were gold and salt?
400
This was the first European country that had exchanged Africans as products or commodities.
What is Portugal?
400
This city is the capital of the United States of America.
What is Washington D.C.?
500
This ability possessed by African slaves was most impressive and prized by colonists in America.
What is their farming skills?
500
These are at least TWO items shipped from North America to Europe in Triangle Trade.
What were sugar, tobacco, cotton, indgo, fabrics, etc.?
500
This is the most famous city of the ancient African Empires that we have studied.
What is Timbuktu?
500
This is the European country that benefited the most financially from the African slave trade.
What is England or Great Britain?
500
This is the name of the current Vice-President of the United States.
Who is Joe Biden?